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NCLEX Nutrition

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  • Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. What foods are good sources of carbohydrates?






2. How much fruit is to be eaten/day?






3. What vitamin can helps with blood clotting?






4. What is RDA of protein?






5. What clinical administration is used and checked by albumin - prealbumin - and transferrin and overall nutrtion?






6. Sources of fats






7. These cannot be synthesized by body and must be obtained by diet






8. What type of people need extra protein?






9. What illness is a direct result of vitamin D deficiency?






10. What is the function of vitamin E?






11. Where can you get more vitamin D?






12. What function is vitamin A?






13. What does DASH stand for?






14. These nutrients required for proper growth - development - body repair - fluid and electrolyte balance - produce enzymes - hormones and antibodies






15. What is the recording tool for all foods/beverages consumed in last 24 hours includes time - location - portion?






16. This tool assesses each body system for nutrent excess or deficiency






17. If a patient. was riboflavin B2 deficient what foods are good sources of B2?






18. What are the 5 major functions of vitamins?






19. How much milk is to be consumed per day?






20. When does BMR decrease?






21. Insufficient intake of carbohydrate results in these two nutrients being used as energy






22. Where can you find good sources of vitamin E?






23. What type of patients are to utilize nutritional screening initiatives NSI?






24. How much vegetables are to be eaten per day?






25. What foods are good if patient. is vitamin A defecient and/or suffer from night blindness or xeropthalmia?






26. Where can you find good sources of vitamin K?






27. If inadequate amounts of protein can lead to this






28. How many calories/gram is protein?






29. What color vegetables are to be consumed more of?






30. What milk products are avoided in the pyramid and not a good supply of calcium?






31. What water soluble vitamins are easily excreted from body?






32. What foods are carbohydrates and provide energy?






33. Fats can lead to some medical problems






34. What does basal metabolic rate BMR calculate?






35. How much grains are to be eaten per day?






36. What lab value shows iron stores of visceral body protein?






37. Food freqency questionnaire is used over this time period to track nutrients not consumed daily






38. What type of albumin levels will show malnutrtion?






39. How much sodium may be consumed per day?






40. What problem may occur if vitamin K deficient?






41. Concentrated sources of energy poviding 9 calories/gram






42. Good overall indicator of nutritional status becaUse of long half life and maintain until malnutrtion occurs






43. What blood levels are checked for decrease in iron?






44. What foods are needed for pellegra - dermatitis - diarrhea - and dementia?






45. How many cal/gram are carbohydrates?






46. If patient. has beriberi - or wernicke korsakoff syndrome what type of foods would be needed?






47. When does BMR increase?






48. How long should a food record or journal is analyzed for nutrient content?






49. If protein stores become depleted which can neagatively affect immune system of which lab value






50. What foods are needed for this deficiency of nutritional anemia - or neural tube defects?